Acts 26:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;

Rise

Acts 9:6

Acts 22:10

To make

Acts 9:15

Acts 13:1

Acts 22:14

A minister

In the

Galatians 2:2

General references

Proverbs 14:25

Bible References

Rise

but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.”

And I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go on into Damascus, and there you will be told of all that has been appointed for you to do.’

To make

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;

Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear an utterance from His mouth.

A minister

For he was counted among us and received his share in this ministry.”

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.

After he had greeted them, he began to relate one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for His name’s sake,

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart,

Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace which was given to me according to the working of His power.

just as you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow bond-servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf,

and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you as to your faith,

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service,

In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the

sound doctrine which you have been following.

But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

In the

And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent;

“It happened when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I fell into a trance,

But on the night immediately following, the Lord stood at his side and said, “Take courage; for as you have solemnly witnessed to My cause at Jerusalem, so you must witness at Rome also.”

For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me,

Boasting is necessary, though it is not profitable; but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

General references

A truthful witness saves lives,
But he who

utters lies is treacherous.